Sarah McGrew

2.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
29 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Sarah McGrew is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Education and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah McGrew has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 20 papers in Education and 15 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sarah McGrew's work include Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (15 papers), Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (12 papers) and Online and Blended Learning (11 papers). Sarah McGrew is often cited by papers focused on Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (15 papers), Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (12 papers) and Online and Blended Learning (11 papers). Sarah McGrew collaborates with scholars based in United States. Sarah McGrew's co-authors include Sam Wineburg, Joel Breakstone, Teresa Ortega, Mark D. Smith, Virginia L. Byrne, Abby Reisman, Chauncey Monte‐Sano, Sarah Schneider Kavanagh, Elizabeth H. Simmons and Joseph Kahne and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Educational Psychology, Computers & Education and Teaching and Teacher Education.

In The Last Decade

Sarah McGrew

28 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Can Students Evaluate Online Sources? Learning From Assessments of Civic Online Reasoning

2018 313 citations Sarah McGrew, Joel Breakstone et al. Theory & Research in Social Education profile →
Evaluating information: The cornerstone of civic online reasoning

2016 271 citations Sam Wineburg, Sarah McGrew profile →
Lateral Reading and the Nature of Expertise: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information

2019 188 citations Sam Wineburg, Sarah McGrew Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education profile →
Lateral reading on the open Internet: A district-wide field study in high school government classes.

2022 89 citations Sam Wineburg, Joel Breakstone et al. Journal of Educational Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah McGrew United States	16	1.0k	749	445	436	228	29	1.6k
Monica Bulger United States	16	363 0.3×	572 0.8×	161 0.4×	213 0.5×	231 1.0×	30	1.1k
Julie Coiro United States	20	399 0.4×	1.2k 1.6×	899 2.0×	160 0.4×	526 2.3×	52	2.0k
Donald J. Leu United States	24	359 0.3×	1.2k 1.7×	838 1.9×	153 0.4×	388 1.7×	59	2.0k
Reima Al-Jarf Saudi Arabia	20	228 0.2×	615 0.8×	192 0.4×	80 0.2×	263 1.2×	206	1.6k
David Reinking United States	24	286 0.3×	1.3k 1.7×	812 1.8×	111 0.3×	375 1.6×	79	2.0k
Daniel G. Krutka United States	21	803 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	344 0.8×	358 0.8×	336 1.5×	61	1.7k
Sarit Barzilai Israel	21	531 0.5×	1.3k 1.7×	1.5k 3.4×	113 0.3×	150 0.7×	39	2.1k
Guy Merchant United Kingdom	25	564 0.5×	868 1.2×	176 0.4×	236 0.5×	337 1.5×	60	1.6k
Greg Heiberger United States	5	856 0.8×	805 1.1×	219 0.5×	343 0.8×	310 1.4×	7	1.4k
Tian Luo United States	15	312 0.3×	636 0.8×	263 0.6×	138 0.3×	239 1.0×	81	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah McGrew

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah McGrew

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah McGrew

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah McGrew. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah McGrew based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sarah McGrew. Sarah McGrew is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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McGrew, Sarah, et al.. (2025). “From personal experience, it’s true!”: Students’ digital evaluations on relevant issues. Journal of the Learning Sciences. 34(5). 743–786.

McGrew, Sarah, et al.. (2024). Tackling misinformation through online information literacy: Structural and contextual considerations. Journal of Research on Technology in Education. 56(1). 1–6. 4 indexed citations

Breakstone, Joel, Sarah McGrew, & Mark D. Smith. (2024). Measuring what matters: Investigating what new types of assessments reveal about students’ online source evaluations. 3 indexed citations

McGrew, Sarah. (2024). Talking about credibility, students, and facilitation: Opportunities to learn about teaching online evaluations in rehearsal debriefs. Teaching and Teacher Education. 153. 104813–104813. 1 indexed citations

McGrew, Sarah, et al.. (2024). The Problem With Perspective: Students’ and Teachers’ Reasoning About Credibility During Discussions of Online Sources. Cognition and Instruction. 42(3). 399–425. 6 indexed citations

McGrew, Sarah. (2023). Teaching lateral reading: Interventions to help people read like fact checkers. Current Opinion in Psychology. 55. 101737–101737. 19 indexed citations

McGrew, Sarah, et al.. (2022). Fighting misinformation in college: students learn to search and evaluate online information through flexible modules. Information and Learning Sciences. 123(1/2). 45–64. 7 indexed citations

Wineburg, Sam, Joel Breakstone, Sarah McGrew, Mark D. Smith, & Teresa Ortega. (2022). Lateral reading on the open Internet: A district-wide field study in high school government classes.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 114(5). 893–909. 89 indexed citations breakdown →

Mirra, Nicole, Sarah McGrew, Joseph Kahne, Antero Garcia, & Brendesha M. Tynes. (2022). Expanding digital citizenship education to address tough issues. Phi Delta Kappan. 103(5). 31–35. 15 indexed citations

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McGrew, Sarah. (2021). Skipping the Source and Checking the Contents: An in-Depth Look at Students’ Approaches to Web Evaluation. Computers in the Schools. 38(2). 75–97. 13 indexed citations

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McGrew, Sarah & Virginia L. Byrne. (2020). Teaching Wikipedia: Supporting Students in Lifelong Learning.. ICLS. 4 indexed citations

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McGrew, Sarah & Virginia L. Byrne. (2020). Who Is behind this? Preparing high school students to evaluate online content. Journal of Research on Technology in Education. 53(4). 457–475. 41 indexed citations

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Reisman, Abby, et al.. (2019). Evidence of emergent practice: Teacher candidates facilitating historical discussions in their field placements. Teaching and Teacher Education. 80. 145–156. 37 indexed citations

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Kavanagh, Sarah Schneider, et al.. (2019). Teaching content in practice: Investigating rehearsals of social studies discussions. Teaching and Teacher Education. 86. 102863–102863. 27 indexed citations

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Wineburg, Sam & Sarah McGrew. (2019). Lateral Reading and the Nature of Expertise: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 121(11). 1–40. 188 indexed citations breakdown →

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McGrew, Sarah. (2019). Learning to evaluate: An intervention in civic online reasoning. Computers & Education. 145. 103711–103711. 103 indexed citations

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Breakstone, Joel, Sarah McGrew, Mark D. Smith, Teresa Ortega, & Sam Wineburg. (2018). Why we need a new approach to teaching digital literacy. Phi Delta Kappan. 99(6). 27–32. 76 indexed citations

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McGrew, Sarah, Joel Breakstone, Teresa Ortega, Mark D. Smith, & Sam Wineburg. (2018). Can Students Evaluate Online Sources? Learning From Assessments of Civic Online Reasoning. Theory & Research in Social Education. 46(2). 165–193. 313 indexed citations breakdown →

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McGrew, Sarah, Teresa Ortega, Joel Breakstone, & Sam Wineburg. (2017). The Challenge That's Bigger than Fake News: Civic Reasoning in a Social Media Environment.. The American Educator. 41(3). 4. 92 indexed citations

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Wineburg, Sam & Sarah McGrew. (2016). Evaluating information: The cornerstone of civic online reasoning. 271 indexed citations breakdown →

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